Viet Nguyen’s Sympathizer on HBO

One of the things that has been occuring as of late is the increase in representation of AAPI in films and on TV. In the past, we only got the Joy Luck Club, but nothing happened afterwards. Things have drastically changed in the past 10 years. During the 1990s, we had very little in terms of exposure for AAPI in film, and AAPI writers were also not given the opportunities which were locked down by both the combination of mainstream writers and the New York Publishing Houses.

Today, we have Viet Nguyen’s The Sympathizer on HBO. Consider this thought: HBO brought us Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, and other series. Given this context, having an AAPI centric show on HBO is a big win.

Congrats to Viet, who was part of the Editorial Board of dISorient Journalzine during the early days.